Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. - Agatha Christie

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man. I think, myself, that one's memories represent those moments which, insignificant as they may seem, nevertheless represent the inner self and oneself as most really oneself. I am today the same person as that solemn little girl with pale flaxen sausage-curls. The house in which the spirit dwells, grows, develops instincts and tastes and emotions and intellectual capacities, but I myself, the true Agatha, am the same. I do not know the whole Agatha. The whole Agatha, so I believe, is known only to God.

‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.